Koalas: When Stupidity is a Survival Strategy. Facts About Koalas Nobody Knows About

Koalas: When Stupidity is a Survival Strategy. Facts About Koalas Nobody Knows About

If we held a contest for the cutest animal on the planet, the koala, or the marsupial Australian bear, would probably take one of the prizes. Indeed, he looks so much like the little teddy bear, so loved by children.

Did you know that the word "koala" from one of the Australian aboriginal languages translates as "does not drink"? That is how the native Australians named this animal for the fact that it rarely drinks water, although later zoologists have discovered that, although infrequently, koalas do drink water.

Even though the koala is called a marsupial bear or an Australian bear, because of some external similarities, it has nothing in common with real bears, the koala, and the bear are not even distant relatives. Koala belongs to the marsupial family, which is represented by three species: koalas, wombats, and kangaroos. The wombat is the closest relative to the koala.

The appearance of the koala is very unusual. Its fur is short and thick, usually gray and smoky colors, but there are koalas with brown hues. Its abdomen, on the other hand, is always white.

The body length of a koala is 60-85 cm, weighing up to 14 kg...
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